Going through all my things in the studio space because we are moving to a better place soon. Found a lot of photos and old art pieces from my studing years. (MFA at Konstfack Art department.) As an artist I’ve mostly worked with animated art video but in school I had a severe filet crochet CRAZY period. I filet crocheted so much I ”crocheted myself” and couldn’t crochet for years. I posted one VHS piece yesterday and these guns are my most displayed piece from that period. This is on the same theme as The ”Soft punch” piece.(for the record: I don’t like guns)This makes me want to filet crochet again because it is a very good technique if you want to build three dimentional pieces.
Title: ”A girl´s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do”, made in 1998, gun approx 25 x 13cm (10″ x 5.2″), cotton yarn.

I get a lot of questions if I have a pattern for this piece and I’m sorry to say I don’t have one.
Even if I would have one it would not be possible to make it according to my pattern, because you must have the exact same guns to make the mold from. Mine was a pair of play guns from 1977 which is not on the market anymore. :)
In the comments to this post I try to explain what technique I have used to make these. Hope thats of any help!

Eng: Use the same technique as when you make a plaster cast from a clay sculpture – but with different sugar&water wet pieces of filetcrochet instead. Sew them back on the mold with vinyl thread and take everything apart again when dry. Glue the pieces together to form a hollow piece. – hm it’s difficult to explane – I should try to make a tutorial with pictures instead :-)

Hi Inger,These pieces are incredibly inspiring. I have been trying to crochet 3-D pieces for a while and ended up using plastic bag yarn to get the structure. Do you use starch to make your pieces solid?Your colour sense is also fabulous. I get a real sense of joy from your pieces.Kind Regards,Helle

Thank you! I’m delighted that you all like my stuff!Helle,Actually I’ve used sugar and water to starch the 3D work. (tried to explain the workprocess here in these comments, higher up) :-)It’s the old Grandma-way of starching it. It seems to hold well – these guns were made in 1998approx 10years ago.

Oh my goodness! I LOVE the little gun! My sister’s boyfriend would just ADORE that, he collects guns. Do you have a pattern? Or did you just use old doilies? I would love some instructions if you would be willing. Please let me know!

So glad to have finally found you/your blog and the rest of the story behind these filet crochet pieces. I saw an image of the pistols on Pintrest, but the link did not lead back to any website with more information.
Very cool – I love how you accomplished creating the dimensional piece out of filet.
Going to bookmark your blog, too, so I can check back from time to time. I enjoy your creativity, and mutual love of fiber arts.